Frickin’ ecstatic.
Forbes has just released its annual list of the world’s most obscenely wealthy people. Above, the top 4: Carlos (Telmex) Slim Helu, $74bn; Bill (Microsoft) Gates, $56bn; Warren (Berkshire Hathaway) Buffet, $50bn and Bernard (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) Arnault, $41bn.
This year’s list broke records in size (1,210 billionaires) and total net worth ($4.5 trillion). China doubled its number of 10-figure fortunes, and Moscow now has more billionaires than any other city.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs2l38DoqsQ Revealed at last: what Spock sees when he gazes into that scanner.
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Modelled after Danish professor Henrik Scharfe from Aalborg University, Hiroshi Ishiguro‘s android, Geminoid DK is perhaps one of the creepiest and realistic looking humanoid robots ever made.
Geminoid DK has an older sister, Actroid-F – we’re familiar with her work.
Geminoid Clone Bot Hipper than Human Original (Crave)
Artist, Clement Valla captures surrealist images by zooming into Google Earth locations at just the right angle to reveal flattening and warping effects caused by limitations in the 3D mapping technology.
“The images are screenshots from Google Earth with basic color adjustments and cropping. I am collecting these new typologies as a means of conservation – as Google Earth improves its 3D models, its terrain, and its satellite imagery, these strange, surrealist depictions of our built environment and its relation to the natural landscape will disappear in favor of better illusionistic imagery.”
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Schrödinger’s Cat is a famous paradox of quantum mechanics which is often quoted but less often properly understood. There’s a cat in a box. It might be dead. It might be alive. It might be both.
What?
Cue the charming Martyn Poliakoff – professor of chemistry – and his colleagues at the University Of Nottingham.
pic via SteveO’s Tumblelog
At the recent New York International Toy Fair, Fisher Price debuted its $14.99 Laugh & Learn Baby iCan Play Case (above). Ideal for parents who appreciate the advantages of iPhone and iTouch as a babysitter, but don’t want 400+ quid’s worth of kit used as a teething hammer.
Or you could just, you know, give junior a teething hammer.
Toddler Proof iPhone Case for Total Pushover Parents (The Stir)
Putting the uprising aside for one magical day, thousands in the town of Misrata celebrated the opening of Apple Store #323.
“We know a thing or two about revolution,” said Ron Johnson, Apple’s Senior VP of Retail, who cut the ribbon amid celebratory gunshots by the excited citizenry. “So our bond with the Libyan people runs deep.”
While there is definitely excitement in the air — along with the occasional streak of tracers — Apple is by no means getting a free ride in Libya. Opening in just two weeks is Microsoft Store #8, which panders to the pro-Gadhafi crowd massing arms in Tripoli.
Microsoft says it has a “winner” in a theme that will appeal to government supporters and those too afraid to leave their homes: Microsoft: Making the status quo more tolerable than ever.
Apple Store Opens In Libya, Brings Magic To Revolutionaries (Scoopertino)
Not the biggest Radiohead fan in the world, nor famed for his discretion when it comes to giving his opinion of other bands, Liam Gallagher offered the following take on King Of Limbs in a recent interview for The Quietus:
I heard that f**king Radiohead record and I just go, ‘What?!’ I like to think that what we do, we do fucking well. Them writing a song about a fucking tree? Give me a f**king break! A thousand year old tree? Go f**k yourself! You’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week. You know what I mean?
